Secular Trans Feminism

Zinnia Jones is a writer and videoblogger, co-blogging with Heather McNamara and Lux Pickel. She's written extensively on the subjects of secularism, feminism, and being transgender. Since 2008, her videos have received over 8 million views, and her articles have been featured in Autostraddle, the Huffington Post, and The Fight magazine. You can reach her at zjemptv@gmail.com, or on Twitter at @ZJemptv, and her YouTube channel is at www.zinniajones.com.

About Lux Pickel

Luxander Pickel is a genderqueer atheist and nerdy Whovian. They care very much about human rights, destroying harmful social systems, and promoting rational thinking. Lux struggles with depression and spends a lot of their time playing video games. When less debilitated by chronic illness, they love to write about social justice and make art; on a good day they love chatting about sex and relationships from a poly-demi-pansexual perspective.

I always get a kick out of asshats like this who go to blogs and accuse bloggers of “bad journalism”. It reminds me of reading letters to the editor in newspapers where the writer complains about bias in opinion columns.

TW identifier so that everyone who equates me to a black plague knows who I am: Eucliwood. That’s me. The inferior Eucliwood Eu. Also… *cannot think of anymore name alternatives*

Wow holy shit, and that looks like a comment on freethought blogs… random troll? Someone who comments here regularly? Didn’t this hurt you? I was expecting a more thorough blog post on how totally hurtful it was rather than just mocking it.

I, who was born a long time ago in a dictatorship, read that comment and instantly pictured the greasy and morose policeman doing an interrogation, seating in a desk reading the thick file in a nasal voice: “So it says here in the file that you… – he lifts his eyes from the file and kind of spits the name through contorted lips, what can be read as scare quotes – Zinnia… have been conspiring against the state…”